A majority of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo lack access to electricity. At Nuru, Juliana Kerrest, MBA ‘18, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, is dedicated to enhancing connectivity. Nuru builds mini solar grids allowing those in remote areas to tap into a power source.
Sometimes, an MIT Sloan Action Learning team is so successful that it calls for an encore. That’s what happened for MBA ’25 students Shawn George, Neha Golakia, Trung Nguyen, and Nisha Patel when they teamed up again for a Global Entrepreneurship Lab (G-Lab) project in Brazil after a successful ASEA...
Every year for 50 years, the U.S. Coast Guard has nominated a senior officer to apply to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program.
Deepak Dugar, SM ’11, MBA ’13, PhD ’13, is leading a transformative effort in material production, by replacing petroleum not just as a fuel but as a material. He’s doing this through combining synthetic biology with chemical catalysis to reinvent the way the world makes things—and reducing gigatons...
Barbara Granek, MBA ’12, founder and CEO of Fishtag, believes students who participate in Action Learning at MIT Sloan presume they will gain valuable, relevant business experience. They often do. But the lab courses also afford them a unique opportunity for advancement.
Rubén Lozano Aguilera, MBA ’13 identified pollution as a key challenge for the future of transportation in urban areas. With the introduction of eco-friendly routes on Google Maps, Lozano Aguilera and team have prevented an estimated 2.4MM+ metric tons of CO2 emissions—equivalent to removing 500K fu...
One year out from completing the Executive MBA program, Matthew Williams, EMBA ’20, remains connected with his Sloanie network and continues to leverage and adapt the skills he gained as a student to meet whatever challenges or opportunities come his way.
On this episode of Sloanies Talking with Sloanies, Jawad Ahsan, EMBA '14, discusses the transformative power of an MBA, his career growth from GE to entrepreneurial ventures, and the role MIT Sloan played in shaping his path.
In a new book, David Coghlan, SF ’85, reviews the nearly 70-year career of the late Edgar Schein, who mentored the author and many others in the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA Program.
What if patients could receive hospital-quality care from the comfort of home? Beth Israel Lahey Health is making that possible. In August 2023, they launched the Hospital at Home program at one of the system’s hospitals, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA, enabling qualified patients...
